Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, " See introduced...

"All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neightborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his school... Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables... Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and he's ruining his cousin Danny's life.... These three apparently unrelated tales come together with an unexpected...

From the award-winning author of Among the Missing, Fitting Ends and You Remind Me of Me, comes an ambitious, gripping and beautifully written new novel about identity and identity theft – in the tradition of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Case Histories. Three strangers who are trying to find their way in the wake of loss become entwined in an identity-theft scheme, which has a resounding effect on them all. At once a gripping page-turner, a gorgeously

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"The Dragonet Prophecy didn't call for a RainWing dragonet, but Glory knows she's far more powerful than she gets credit for. So it's devastating when she finally finds the rest of her tribe and discovers that RainWings do seem a little lazy. They nap every day, no one really wants to be queen, and worst of all, only a few have noticed that RainWings are disappearing--mysteriously vanishing from the safety of the rain forest without a trace. Glory...

From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful - at least on the surface. But no one in her exclusive neighborhood knows what living with her demanding husband Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost two decades ago. Back then, Molly was Maddy Carmichael, living in a run-down trailer park. After the terrible events of her high school prom - and the act of...